a busy day

[kareina]

 Stayed up way too late! Got to bed at 03:00… partly because Mira had seen my post with the link for the JMBards event announcement and the fact that (soon to be) King Gilbert will be attending, and asked if I would like suggestions for edits? Yes, yes I would!

 

It took till 23:00 before she’d finished with the suggestions, which meant that it was nearly midnight before I had implemented them. This was the first time that I was awake on Monday at the start of unicornduke’s weekly crafts zoom session, and I have sewing projects I wanted to be working on.

 

Therefore, I tested to see if it is possible to roll my new computer stand with the big monitor into the kitchen. Yes, it is, of one goes through the larger doors through the entry hall.

 

This meant I could spread the Dusky plum silk fabric on the kitchen table (after raising it to a good working height, I love having a raise-lowerable work surface) and baste the body pieces of the Keldor copper trim tunic in progress to it while hanging out with people I hadn’t met before.

 

This turned out to be a delightful idea. I enjoyed their company and got two of the three pieces completely attached and the third started before we all scattered from the call at 02:00.

 

Not wanting to go to bed before I had finished the third, I checked first to see if perhaps Fjorlief or Thorvald happened to be on line and up for a visit just then, as I haven’t had a chance to catch up with either in ages. Neither saw my notes directly, so I opened the link to the video about the making of the Glass Dress that had been shared in the zoom chat and watched it till I had the third piece of handwoven wool from Barbara attached to the silk.

 

Then, knowing the rule “Don’t cut fabric after midnight”, I packed everything away, and went to bed.

 

I woke with the dawn light’s reminder at 08:00 that I should feed the cats and take my morning vitamins, so I did that and went right back to sleep.

 

I woke the next time at 11:00, with Keldor wondering if I was going to sleep all day (they had gone to sleep at least an hour earlier than I), so I got up. As we finished breakfast he asked us if anyone wanted to go check out a second hand store?

 

Yes, that sounded fun, so off the Robertsfors we went (a half an hour drive away).

 

I found a pair of maroon cotton sweat pants in 100% cotton, and he bought a set of window lights (because he wanted the lamp shades to cover the growth lights hanging over the plants in the kitchen window), a small pewter oil lamp, a fancy scarf in purple and yellow, and a couple balls of yarn, all for just over 100 kr (including my sweat pants). I don’t think any single item of that could have been purchased for that little new.

 

Then we went home, where I curled up o the couch with a book and they started watching TV. They were watching Mary Poppins Comes Back when I surfaced from my book and wandered to the kitchen, where I finally baked the Hallon eld småkakor, the dough for which had been sitting in the fridge in a yoghurt bucket ready to bake since 2025-12-06 a useful day at home.

 

I really had intended to bake the cookies the next day, but somehow that didn’t happen, nor on more next days than I had realised. Luckily, the dough still tasted good, though there was noticeably less of it as I had eaten the occasional ball of cookie dough in the meantime (yum!).

 

I tried feeding Keldor a cookie as soon as they came out of the oven, but they were both asleep on the couch by then (they were awake when I left the room).

 

Then I cooked up the rest of the Brussels sprouts that didn’t go into the Veg with spicy peanut sauce last week. I really should have cooked them sooner, the outer leaves all needed discarding, but the inner bits were still good cooked in garlic butter with a little sesame seeds and sunflower seeds.

 

After I ate and the kitchen was clean I returned to the couch, where they had woken up on time for the end of their movie, and I cut the lining one of the pieces of the Keldor copper trim tunic I had basted and started turning in the edges and sewing the silk to the wool as Rocky Horror Picture Show played on the screen.

It finished on time for our zoom yoga/pilates session with friends, after which I was so tired I went straight to bed.